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Monday, April 30, 2012

Bigfoot sightings common in Four-State AreaJoplin GlobeLoren Coleman, founder of the International Museum of Cryptozoology in Portland, Maine, says some of the earliest reports of sasquatch sightings in the country came from Missouri and Arkansas. Coleman says there are reports of a “monstrous wild man” in ...

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Are geo-engineers 'playing God' with our weather (Part II)?Coeur d'Alene PressI've had a tremendous response to last week's column on 'CHEMTRAILS,' the probably toxic spraying in the upper-level stratosphere done in recent years in a combined effort by geo-engineers and the governments of Canada, the US and many NATO countries ...

The SAGA: Is the government lacing our skies with poison?my.hsj.orgSome believe the “chemtrails” have been used in order to create an atmosphere that can support electromagnetic waves generated by government equipment. Is Project Cloverleaf a dangerous method of protecting us? Honestly, I believe not.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Loch Ness monster - part 1Hastings and St. Leonards ObserverI am of course referring to Scotland's Loch Ness monster. Doing well from the tourists is all well and good but the fact remains, is the Loch Ness monster really real in so far as whatever is in Loch Ness is as yet unrecognised (to science) as a living ...and more »

Chemical concern over aircraft trailBay ChronicleCON/CHEM TRAILS? Contrails are clouds made from water vapour that condense then freezes behind a plane engine. Chemtrail is a term coined to suggest that contrails are formed by something other than the natural process of engine exhaust hitting cold ...

Off Beat: Oddly intriguingPress HeraldMaine marks Obscura Day with a lecture on the so-called 'Dover Demon' at the Cryptozoology Museum in Portland. By Ray Routhier rrouthier@mainetoday.com Saturday is Obscura Day, a time to celebrate weird places around the world.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

To Kick Climate Change, Replace Corn With Pastured BeefMother Jones... Archer Daniels Midland, Tyson, and their peers buy the finished crop and transform it into meat, ethanol, sweetener, and a range of food ingredients. Known in Washington as King Corn, the corn lobby wields formidable power in political circles.and more »

A Visit of the UnknownAllAfrica.com"Jinn can create UFOs, hallucinations, psychokinetic effects, cattle mutilations, crop circles, apparitions and other paranormal phenomenon." Cattle mutilations and crop circles as stated in the above quote are some of the physical marks left by UFOs ...and more »

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

A Visit Of The UnknownLeadership Newspapers“Jinn can create UFOs, hallucinations, psychokinetic effects, cattle mutilations, crop circles, apparitions and other paranormal phenomenon.” Cattle mutilations and crop circles as stated in the above quote are some of the physical marks left by UFOs ...

UFOs Over Bloomfield?BaristanetBY Katherine Milsop | Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 10:00am | COMMENTS (4) Maria Paladino-Fitz always thought she would be the last person in the world to talk about UFOs. That was, until Saturday night, when she saw at least a dozen “huge, orange glowing ...

Crop Circles MochdreNorth Wales Weekly NewsOn two subsequent weeks a farmer and a British Gas worker were left stunned after they discovered crop circles which had appeared overnight. Farmer Elwyn Williams discovered a perfect circle 40ft in diameter at his corn field at Garth Farm in Mochdre ...

UFO Sighting Reported Nearby — Do You Believe?Patch.comA recent post on the UFO Stalker website involves a reported sighting in Winder. A Dacula sighting has also previously been reported. Video of a purported UFO sighting in Lawrenceville, Ga. on July 27, 2010. We're not saying it's aliens, ...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Inside the mystery of crop circles9NEWS.comInside The Crop Circle Mystery. Taylor's documentary won the Best Feature Documentary Award at the UFO Congress Film Festival. For more than twenty years, Taylor has been part of the international community that gathers in England to study and document ...

Friday, April 20, 2012

The Cadborosaurus WarsScientific American (blog)People who read my stuff (both here and in print) will know that I have more than a passing interest in cryptozoology, and especially in 'sea monsters'; indeed, I've written about 'Cadborosaurus' quite a few times. As I always say, this interest in ...

Call it a family business. On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against British twins for operating an alleged pump-and-dump scheme.

Since the age of 16, the two brothers, Thomas Edward Hunter and Alexander John Hunter, used an email newsletter and websites to convince customers they were employing a stock-picking robot to predict which penny stocks were about to jump in value, according to the SEC complaint filed in federal court in New York's southern district. In a pump-and-dump scheme, typically perpetrators find a way to inflate the price of a stock artificially in order to cash out themselves.

A lawyer for the SEC, Robert Dodge, declined to comment on the case beyond the complaint. Eric Bruce, a lawyer for the Hunter brothers, did not respond to a request for comment.

"The defendants' characterization of the software led investors to believe that they were receiving stock recommendations based on a complex, statistically-driven analysis," the SEC complaint says. In fact, the SEC says, that stock-picking robot never existed, and the twins were instead promoting stocks that companies paid them to tout.

The complaint goes on to say the Hunter twins hyped the stocks to investors through two main websites: doublingstocks.com and daytradingrobot.com. Then, unbeknownst to the sites' customers, the twins allegedly used a different website, equitypromoter.com, to raise money from companies that wanted the twins to promote their stocks. Thomas Hunter boasted on equitypromoter.com that "one email to this list of people rockets a stock price," according to the SEC.

When the Hunter twins received a payment from companies wanting their stock promoted, the brothers allegedly would issue an advisory on their other websites or via newsletter directing their subscribers to buy those same stocks. "The promoters then took advantage of the increased prices and liquidity by selling their own shares," the complaint alleges. The price of the stocks would often drop shortly after the Hunters recommended that their subscribers invest, according to the SEC, leaving their customers with shares worth less than what they originally paid.

According to the SEC, the twins bilked 75,000 people, mostly in the U.S., out of $ 1.2 million in the three years that they operated these sites, under an umbrella company called Global Marketing Corp., and also received at least $ 1.865 million from promoters wanting to tout their stocks.

A report in the Wall Street Journal said last year authorities in the U.K. charged the twins with securities violations and fraud. The Journal says that Alexander Hunter ultimately pleaded guilty to the criminal securities charges, and that U.K. authorities dropped the fraud charges against him and all charges against his brother Thomas.

The scheme began in 2007, but even early on, the twins' sites drew complaints; the SEC first started receiving complaints about the site in 2008, according to the Journal. After the blog sketoac posted a warning about the scheme that year, the Journal says subscribers came forward to complain they'd been bilked. One said he lost $ 1,000 by subscribing to doublingstocks.com.

The twins claimed the stock-picking robot in "most years is responsible for $ 4,000,000,000+ Annual Trading Profit," according to the complaint. It says the Hunter brothers called the robot "Marl," and claimed it was developed by two men, one of whom was named Michael Cohen and invented it while a contractor for Goldman Sachs. The complaint says, in fact, there was no Michael Cohen working in that capacity for Goldman.

Both daytradingrobot.com and doublingstocks.com websites have since been taken down.

Shortly after the filing was main public, equitypromoter.com redirected to a site called Smart Penny Stocks whose owner, Jason Abbott, told The Huffington Post that his website is unrelated to the Hunters, and that he "owns a bunch of expired domain names."

As of this posting, the domain name equitypromoter.com seems to have been put up for sale.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Tales of haunted houses are a mainstay of horror movies. But what can be made of people's claims that real-life ghosts have turned their homes into places of terror? This revealing video introduces three families who are convinced their houses are haunted. One Midwestern family turned to a ghost-buster to rid their house of its unwanted guest. In a fascinating interview, "psychic investigator" Rob Conover reveals how he cleared their home of its ghosts. See bizarre phenomena at a house in Colorado captured on film. And hear the incredible stories of a Pennsylvania family that has learned to live with spirits that have followed them to 11 homes. Along with these compelling stories, this video presents the opinions of psychologists, historians, photography experts and Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Lederman, who offer rational explanations for the incredible events others point to as evidence of haunting.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Phases & Stages: For the Sake of the SongAustin ChronicleChem Trails Should Be Examined Since Michael King brought up chem trails in the same breath as the fluoride issue, might he risk a few ... Shame on Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Shame on the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation ...and more »

Monday, April 16, 2012

Autism ExpoAustin ChronicleChem Trails Should Be Examined Since Michael King brought up chem trails in the same breath as the fluoride issue, might he risk a few ... Dismayed by Letter on Council Districts I read the letter by professor L. Scott Walker about why Austin needs ...and more »

RAF SURVEILLANCE PLANES GROUNDEDExpress.co.ukARE THOSE PLANES THE ONES SPRAYING US WITH CHEMTRAILS? If those surveillance planes are the ones spraying our skies every day with chemtrails, along with the Air India planes & Virgin planes crisscrossing our skies with filth, maybe that's why we've ...and more »

Severe US Weather: Why this warning is differentThe Seattle TimesHaarp and Chemtrails are being... (April 14, 2012, by skip towne) MORE just like Dutchsinse says, "every dark cloud has a silver iodide lining." (April 14, 2012, by skip towne) MORE It amazes me sometimes that people will believe the most ridiculous ...and more »

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Don't Miss: April 14-20Wall Street JournalAn outdoor-explosion event ("Mystery Circle") was set off earlier this month, but "Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder" still features other attention-getting objects from the China-born artist. Among them: a suspended installation imitating crop circles, ...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Cryptozoology: What else is out there?TNT MagazineLast week promised to be a truly momentous one in the wild, weird world of cryptozoology – the study of animals whose existence is unproven. First, there was the sighting of a black fox in Hertfordshire – the creature is so rare that it had come to be ...

April 15 marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. And while the story of the doomed luxury ship has been in the headlines for the past century, there are also stories of another kind: Ghost stories. Check out these spooky stories about the Titanic.

* In the aftermath of the Titanic tragedy, search and rescue teams recovered 328 Titanic victims and temporarily brought their bodies to the Snow & Co. Funeral Parlour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to Encompass Magazine, the funeral home is now the Five Fisherman Restaurant, and the original pulley used to hoist the Titanic cadavers to the building's upper level still hangs in the wine room ceiling. Today, bizarre occurrences such as glass flying off a shelf and cutlery falling to the floor when no one is near are common occurrences at the restaurant. Manager Gary MacDonald has said of the building's ghosts: "You must acknowledge them or they will pull stunts."

* In 2008, the Atlanta Constitution Journal published a story about the Georgia Aquarium after the "Titanic Aquatic" exhibit was featured there. Several aquarium volunteers reported strange encounters as they worked on the exhibit, which featured hundreds of Titanic-related artifacts. The aquarium staff brought in paranormal investigators, who determined that the Titanic exhibit was indeed a spirit dwelling.

* According to the San Francisco Chronicle, in the 1990s a San Francisco man named Jaime Rodriguez claimed that he was being haunted by a ghost, before finding that a Titanic survivor once inhabited his apartment. But former tenant Dr. Henry Washington Dodge was not considered a Titanic hero. While Dr. Dodge claimed that he called out for women and children to take a spot in the lifeboat that housed his wife and son on that fateful night, he inevitably climbed into the boat and endured public scrutiny for the rest of his life. After undergoing a lawsuit and a financial beating, Dodge sunk into a depression and committed suicide in his San Francisco apartment in 1919. His ghost appeared in the apartment every summer for years, and always in the same spot.

* Legendary socialite Margaret "Molly" Brown survived the Titanic sinking, but her former Denver home is said to be the site of some unusual happenings. According to a blog on Mysterious Colorado, paranormal oddities occur regularly at Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, including furniture disturbances and alleged sightings of the ghosts of Molly and her husband James Joseph Brown. Sightings of Molly's mother in an upstairs window have also been reported, as well as mysterious smells such as Mr. Brown's tobacco and his wife's favorite rose-scented perfume.

* According to the Daily Mail, the house in England where the Titanic's captain was born also has a haunting history. It may come as no surprise that the childhood home of Captain Edward John Smith has been riddled with mysterious floods and unexplained icy chills, as well as ghostly sightings.